Probably not as much as I did when I followed the link to http://www.salmiyuck.com/ and, poking around there, found what at first appeared to be a post from Dec 2014. Turns out it was 2011 + a dirty monitor, but it made me wonder for a couple of seconds.

Whereas Bethmännchen are indeed great (sigh, still more than six months til christmas...), if you don't like salmiaki things, the worst taste offender is probably Denmark, where they sprinkle salmiak on soft ice. And on soft mini cakes. It's probably what you would call an "aquired taste".

@apapadimoulis So wait, real talk here. The opportunity to get a TDWTF mug is legit? Since it's been three years since the last Souvenir Potpourri I figured supplies were exhausted long ago. I will totally send ALL OF THE THINGS if I can get a mug out of it.

Worth it. I got one during the NewRelic promotion and it was my pride and joy for most of a year before I accidentally broke it during a move half-way across the country. They're amazing mugs and I am distraught that I cannot outright pay for a replacement.

Some readers I met at the Tokyo meet-up gave me these Japanese
souvenirs; I wish I could remember which of you gave me what, but the
night was a bit of a blur after I tried to win at Nomihodai.

Nobody ever "wins" nomihodai, unless you consider the bleary-eyed sense of shame and nausea you feel as old ladies give you disapproving looks on the 6am train home to be a prize of some kind. Pretty sure living in Tokyo in my 20s took a decade off my life...

BTW, if you haven't tried it, that Black-Black is nasty licorice-flavored gum w/nicotine in it. If you weren't already, going out in Tokyo made you a smoker by association anyway, so you might as well use the gum to quit!